Lords Sitting of 10 December 1813

Preamble
The royal assent was notified by commission to the Exchequer Bills Bill, the Scot's Salt Bill, the Mutiny Bill, the Local Militia Bill, the Militia Amendment Bill, the Insolvent Debtors' Amendment Bill, the Madder Bill, the Watch and Ward Bill, and two private Bills.
The commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, lord Walsingham, and lord Redesdale.

FRAME BREAKING BILL.
The House resolved itself into a committee, on the Frame-breaking Bill.
Lord Hollandobserved upon the absurdity of the wording of the Bill, which stated. "that whereas it is expedient to amend and render perpetual the said Act (the former Act), be it therefore enacted, that all the provisions of the said Act shall cease and determine."
Lord Redesdaleproposed amendments to obviate this incongruity, by inserting words to the effect, that the former Act should be repealed, and other provisions substituted in lieu thereof.
These amendments having been agreed to,
Lord Hollandexpressed his satisfaction at the repeal of the former Act, and that ministers had found it effectual in putting down the evil. That it had been so effectual, however, was owing, to the activity, the intelligence, and zeal, of the corporation of the town of Nottingham, He mentioned this, because it would be recollected, that some time since a Bill passed the three branches of the legislature, for depriving that corporation, to a considerable extent (unjustly, as he contended), of their corporate
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rights; and if that subject should again come under the consideration of the legislature; he trusted the observations he had now made would be borne in the memory of their lordships.
The Bill passed through the committee, with the amendments.